Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Classical Lineages; 1 What Is Sport? Arts of Rural Sport and the Art of Poetry, 1650â#x80;#x93;1800; 2 Funeral Games: Ludic Events, Imperial Violence, Authorial Encounters; 3 Fencing and the Market in Aristocratic Masculinity; Part Two: Sporting Animals and Their Uses; 4 Turf Wars: Violence, Politics, and the Newmarket Riot of 1751; 5 Animals as Heroes of the Hunt; 6 Horse Racing in Early Colonial Algeria: From Anglophilia to Arabomania; Part Three: The Mediation of Sports

7 Sport and the Body Politic: Athletic Competitions in Rousseauâ#x80;#x99;s Republican Theory8 Writing Fighting/Fighting Writing: Jon Badcock and the Conflicted Nature of Sports Journalism in the Regency; 9 At Play in the Mountains: The Development of British Mountaineering in the Romantic Period; Part Four: The Sporting Body; 10 Sports, Recreation, and Medicine in Sixteenth- to Eighteenth-Century Italy and France; 11 Healing Hysteric Bodies: Women and Physical Exercise in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

12 â#x80;#x9C;The Physical Powers of Manâ#x80;#x9D;: The Emergence of Physical Training in the Eighteenth Century13 What Is Training?; Coda â#x80;#x93; Pilgrim, Pundit, Photographer, Spy: The Ambiguous Origins of Himalayan Mountaineering; Bibliography; Contributors; Index